Retaining Pelletier to take an offensive load and O'Reilly and Biega for stability are important for this young franchise. Hopefully Travis Green will indeed be back, as a revolving door of coaches/veterans for a developing team is never beneficial.

As for RFA's, I could see Archie, and Andersson back for sure. Here's hoping Lain makes a serious push for the big club come October. Asshole factor and all.

Good to see him stay in the organization. I think he did some good things over the course of the season. Hopefully he'll get more support from the coaching staff in Vancouver than he did under the previous regime.

...and another coaching candidate says 'no' to Crosby, Malkin and the Pens; and 'yesy' to Vancouver. Button's head must be spinning.

Island Nucklehead wrote:Been a long time since we've had credible, young prospects with NHL upside on the farm.

No kidding, very long time! This doesn't even factor in Horvat, Cassels, Hutton & Subban (coming down the pipe) to say nothing of this year's draft as well. No apparent superstars in the mix but a helluva solid crop.